• Pray for the Mission Audit Process, and especially for the questionnaire Meeting on September 1^st.
• Pray for the new Buggy Service for parents and children, meeting at St Mary’s on September 21^st.
• Pray for the Enquirer’s Group, meeting for the first time on September 26^th, for those leading and those who might come.
• Pray for ‘Back to Church Sunday’ on October 7^th, and for the courage to invite someone to come.
• At Harvest time, give thanks for all the good things which the earth provides, for a fair sharing of the earth resources, and for our stewardship of creation.
• Pray for the schools as they return at the beginning of the month, and for those going to new schools at this time.
• Remember the feast days this month - Holy Cross Day on the 14^th,
  St Matthew on the 21^st, and St Michael and All Angels on the 29^th.

Prayers of the Month

Holy Cross Day (Sept 14^th): Almighty God, who in the passion of your blessed Son made an instrument of painful death to be for us the means of life and peace: grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ that we may gladly suffer for his sake; who is alive and reigns …

St Matthew’s Day (Sept 21^st): O Almighty God, whose blessed Son called Matthew the tax-collector to be an apostle and evangelist: give us grace to forsake the selfish pursuit of gain and the possessive love of riches that we may follow in the way of your Son Jesus Christ…

St Michael & All Angels (Sept 29^th): Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted the ministries of angels and mortals in a wonderful order: grant that as your holy angels always serve you in heaven, so, at your command, they may help and defend us on earth; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord…